CAPTAIN MURDERER
[SHORT-STORY]
[Radio Times, November 11, 1938] “A record number of ‘fades’ is expected when Olive Shapley
produces Captain Murderer, an essay in the macabre based by G. Dewi Roberts on a story by
Charles Dickens, with unlimited Effects, on November 25.”
[Radio Times, November 18, 1938] “Here is a radio adaptation of a Dickens short story about a
Bluebeard who made a habit of cutting up and making pies of his fair brides. These pies he
afterwards ate.
“Norman Fulton, who has composed the incidental music for this programme, is a member of
the BBC North Regional staff.
“Captain Murderer will give Olive Shapley an unusually busy time at the dramatic control
panel, for it is the sort of play that is full of all kinds of effects, musical and otherwise, to be faded
up and down behind the actors’ lines.”
[CHRONOLOGY]
(NORTHERN PROGRAMME, NEWCASTLE—BBC)
[Friday—8:00-8:30 PM]
November 25, 1938 “Captain Murderer”
[RADIO TIMES: “…Here is a radio adaptation of a Dickens short story
about a Bluebeard who made a habit of cutting up and making pies of his
fair brides. These pies he afterwards ate…”]
SCRIPT: G. Dewi Roberts (adapted from the story by Charles Dickens).
PERSONNEL: Norman Fulton (music), Olive Shapley (producer).